Why did that heralded period when secretaries became millionaires, and economy was humming, and then it shattered so ridiculously and kinda of setup the housing bubble and ZIRP period.
First and foremost in my mind was that I simply couldn't explain the things I did to other people. I didn't produce any tangible goods, I didn't develop software and produce an app, or a website. I might bring a briefcase in to work, but there was usually nothing to put in it, and nothing to take home.
I had some friends and coworkers who could relate, and of course that was a tight-knit crew; we had in-jokes, we knew what Usenet was like, we downloaded games from anon ftp. But if I told a normal person what I did for a living, they'd always say "oh! you know computers! you can get great jobs that way!"
So Hollywood would be hard-pressed to dramatize my workplaces. First to just depict it all in an appealing way, and then to inject some sort of conflict or interpersonal tension. Good night, and good luck.
Partly by interjecting a scene where Margot Robbie explains the mortgage bond market and short selling while wearing very little, but people seemed to like that movie.
But my career has that same mix of cutting edge potential mixed with human limitations making it stressful for me too.
Very well done
e.g. Pirates of Silicon Valley, Startup.com, Silicon Valley - documentary about Fairchild Semiconductor (2013) - suggested by fullshark on HN
The Blackberry movie was also enjoyable
> and then it shattered so ridiculously and kinda of setup the housing bubble and ZIRP period.
Not really, the long-term hollowing out of the economy outside of a very narrow slice at the top that culminated in housing collapse and Great Recession was more a result of tax and other policy shifts that led to the 2001-2007 expansion having horrible distributional characteristics, and not to the dot-com bust itself and the short and shallow 2001 recession it produced.
As a Unix user since 1989, and a Linux user from 2001 on, I'll mutter darkly about the media's precious treatment of Bill Gates, and Microsoft in general as a reason.